Glen Campbell

Jimmy Webb, Musical Instrument Museum, 2/1/13

Jimmy Webb @ Musical Instrument Museum|2/1/13It's always interesting hearing an alternate version of a popular song. That's one of the appeals of live music. But that version is especially worthwhile when it's the original version by the original artist. Such is the case at a Jimmy Webb concert. A ... More >>

Songwriter Jimmy Webb Scored Big Hits -- For Glen Campbell, That Is

By the time he gets to Phoenix, Jimmy Webb expects to be over the flu that's been dogging him recently. The consummate songwriter of such iconic hits as "MacArthur Park," Up, Up and Away," "Galveston," Wichita Lineman," and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," is excited to bring his intimate solo show t ... More >>

Glen Campbell, Pusha T, The Darkness, and "I Am AZ Music" Over the Weekend

Glen Campbell at Comerica Theatre Going in, there was a fear that Glen Campbell's Goodbye Tour concert would devolve into little more than a nostalgia act. That Campbell, struggling with the early onset of Alzheimer's disease, would duly try his best to work through carefully guarded and pre-arrang ... More >>

Glen Campbell, Comerica Theatre, 2/18/12

Maria Vassett​Glen Campbell Comerica Theatre Saturday, February 18 Going in, there was a fear that Glen Campbell's Goodbye Tour concert would devolve into little more than a nostalgia act. That Campbell, struggling with the early onset of Alzheimer's disease, would duly try his best to work t ... More >>

Weekend: Eddy Detroit, Indian Jewelry, Candye Kane, I Am AZ Music at The MIM, and Pusha T

Have you locked your weekend plans down yet? There's plenty going on -- on Source Victoria plays the Yucca on Friday, and Saturday night features three shows that couldn't be more different: Glam-rockers The Darkness, legendary singer Glen Campbell, and Michelle Blades CD release show. But there's ... More >>

Glen Campbell Says Goodbye

Source Victoria, Glen Campbell, The Darkness and More in This Week's Issue

You expect the typical rock 'n' roll drama when a band takes to the studio to tackle its sophomore album: band fights, creative control struggles, and gigantic egos. But it wasn't any of that stuff that caused the four year gap between Source Victoria's The Fast Escape and their airtight new record, ... More >>

The Life of a State: A Timeline of Arizona's History

Incoming: Citizen Cope, Glen Campbell, Toni Braxton

Clarence Greenwood and his band, more commonly known as Citizen Cope, are bringing their blues rock to the Marquee.Greenwood sings of sorrows and interesting characters, and his songs have been featured in commercials (you may have jammed out to one of his songs and not even realized it). ​Ci ... More >>

Occupy Phoenix: "99-Percenter" "Haight Ashbury" Explains Why Jan Brewer's a "Lying Whore" With Alzheimer's

James KingApparently, a "99-percenter" who goes by the name "Haight Ashbury" is responsible for the above protest sign calling Governor Jan Brewer a "lying whore" with Alzheimer's.​In our account of the "Occupy Phoenix" demonstration in downtown Phoenix earlier this month, we used the above image ... More >>

Steve Martin's Bluegrass Album Is No Joke

Glen Campbell Announces Final Studio Album and Goodbye Tour

Wikimedia CommonsGlen Campbell​Arizona resident and legendary singer/songwriter Glen Campbell will release his last album on August 30, titled Ghost On The Canvas.Campbell was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which is apparently a factor in his decision to stop recording and touring af ... More >>

Alice Cooper's A Taste of Christmas Pudding at Comerica Theatre Last Night

Jonathan McNamaraAlice Cooper performs at his annual Christmas Pudding benefit concert.​Alice Cooper's A Taste of Christmas Pudding Comerica Theatre December 18th, 2010 In a lot of ways Alice Cooper's yearly Christmas Pudding charity concert is like most families Christmas gatherings. ... More >>

T.A.M.I. Show DVD Release Is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Time Capsule

Shout Factory​For all its merits of recognizing artists' contributions to modern music, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, by rule, honors musicians for work they created at least a quarter-century earlier. Thus, you have creaky 50- or 60-year-olds performing the music of their youth at the inductio ... More >>

Where in the World's Deputy Adam Stoddard? Our Bet's in the Mesa Hilton

Sheriff Joe has maintained one jail for prisoners -- and another for his friends. We wonder where Deputy Adam Stoddard is ...​Yesterday, the Maricopa County Sheriff's deputy accused of brazenly swiping -- and photocopying -- a defense lawyer's paperwork reportedly checked himself into jail, ... More >>

AZ Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Hosts Benefit

​Grab a Stetson and your autograph pad: The AZ Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame is holding a benefit concert on September 6 at Handlebar J in Scottsdale, a great little honky-tonky type bar just north Shea and Scottsdale Roads. Heard of the institution we lovingly know by it's overly-compl ... More >>

Arizona Premiere Living's List of Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians Kinda Blows

We recently ran across this list of the "Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians" from Arizona Premiere Living. Some of the choices are obvious: Meat Puppets, Jimmy Eat World, Jordin Sparks, Gin Blossoms, Alice Cooper, and Linda Ronstadt almost always make the "top" lists of Arizona musicians.

It Came From YouTube: Isaac Hayes’ Phoenix connection

A fake AC/DC and other bands we love that you’ll loathe

Kentucky-Fried Joe

The comedic kestrel makes the Joe Show in Sun City West, shares a few Joe jokes of his own, and grills state Representative Russell Pearce about his links to white supremacists

Fame, Shmame: Overlooked AZ Hall of Fame Nominees

Props to Our Peeps: The Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards on Sept. 23

Who's the bigger (media) whore: Joe Arpaio or Paris Hilton?

Keith Urban

The man Nic oughta pick

Legend City

A Hall of Fame is born

OK, Go Go

Paper Heart makes a Modest Proposal

David Allan Coe

We Sue the Coward of the County

Arpaio's ditsy chief flack Lisa Allen MacPherson tells us to take her boss to court, so . . .

Jailgate Explodes

A new poll shows Outlaw Joe Arpaio's popularity plummeting among county Republicans

Special Treatment

Is justice for sale? Ask privileged characters like Jerry Colangelo

Dog Day Afternoon

Sheriff Joe's goons launched an assault to make a misdemeanor arrest. The Raid left a burned house, a terrified neighborhood and a dead dog

Turning Up the Heat

There's a difference between justice and vengefulness -- something that's lost on Sheriff Joke.

Letters

Letters from the week of July 22, 2004

Arpaio's Running Scared

The powerful Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona and Senator John McCain want Sheriff Joke gone

BEST PLACE FOR A TWILIGHT DRINK

Greasewood Flats

Richard Ashcroft

Human Conditions (Hut/Virgin)

Best Radio Station -- Country

KUET-AM 710

O Brother, Where Are We?

New outtakes collection spotlights the visionary stoner-bluegrass of John Hartford's Aereo-Plain

Raul Malo

Today (Omtown/Higher Octave)

Calexico

Hot Rail
(Quarterstick)

Tough All Over

A lifetime of ups and downs helps 'Bama songbird Shelby Lynne craft a stunning Southern pop masterpiece

Rock of Pages

Taking stock of the worst music books ever written

Flashes

Night & Day

April 16 - 22, 1998

Mighty Casey

Phoenix guitar legend Al Casey has spent four decades standing in the shadows of stardom

Road Warrior

Inveterate rocker Sleepy LaBeef says rockabilly begins in church

Got'em

GITEM, the state's $12 million antigang task force, storms Casa Grande and shoots a smalltime scofflaw in the back

STU-STU-STUDIOSTHE REEL LOWDOWN ON THE VALLEY'S RECORDING FACILITIES

BOXING YOUR EARS

IF YOU'VE GOT CASH IN YOUR WALLET AND TIME ON YOUR HANDS, BOXED SETS ARE FOR YOU

OUR FAVORITE SAGUAROS... AND WHY